Trust and Power. 1979.  Winchester: Wiley & Sons. 

The Differentation of Society. 1982. New York: Columbia UP. Religious Dogmatics and the Evolution of Societies. 1984.  New York: Edwin Mellen Press. 
 - - - (Studies in Religion and Society, Vol 9)   Peter Beyer (Translator)    Hardcover ISBN: 0889468664 

A Sociological Theory of Law.  1985.  London: Routledge. 

Love as Passion. 1986.  Cambridge: Polity Press. 
  Translator: Jones, Doris L. // Translator: Gaines, Jeremy; Hardcover; 0674539230 
 -    -    -   -   Translator: Gaines, Jeremy; Luhmann, Nuklas; Softcover; 0804732531

Ecological communication. 1986. Cambridge: Polity Press. 
Translator: Bednarz, John; Hardcover; 0226496511 

Political Theory in the Welfare State,. 1990. Berlin: de Gruyter. 

Essays on Self-Reference , 1990. New York: Columbia U.P. 

Risk : A Sociological Theory (Communication and Social Order) . 1993. Rhodes Barrett (Translator) 
 - - - - Berlin: De Gruyter. Hardcover  ISBN: 0202304434 

Social systems. 1995.  Palo Alto: Stanford University Press. 
*book available: Hardcover;   0804719934 
     -      -     -  - Softcover;      0804726256

Reconstructing Theory : Gadamer, Habermas, Luhmann (Interpretations Series ) 1995.  by David Roberts (Editor) 
                      Melbourne Univ Pr; ISBN: 0522845703 

Observations on Modernity. 1998.  Stanford: Stanford University. 

Problems of Reflection in the System of Education 
by Niklas Luhmann, Karl-Eberhard Schorr, Rebecca A. Neuwirth (Translator) 

Hardcover Vol 3 (August, 2002) 
Berghahn Books; ISBN: 1571817352 

Art As a Social System  (June 2000) 
by Niklas Luhmann, Eva M. Knodt (Translator) 

Theories of Distinction: Redescribing the Descriptions of Modernity. 2002
by Niklas Luhmann,  Edited by William Rasch, Translators: J. O'Neil, E. Schrieber, K. Behnke, andW. Whobrey
240 pp
Stanford Univ. Pr.

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